Hard drive 2 does not work

 I used GParted to format the 2nd drive and and it shows up
 in KDisk and GParted. see the attached screen shots.


  It also shows up on the desktop but I am unable to copy files
  to it.

  Why?

  Paul

 Another tidbit of info

 If I plug in a different type of USB stick in Ubuntu 9 it shows up on
 the
 desktop as mounted
 but apparently it is not really mounted as I cannot copy files from that
 either.

 If the stick is plugged in before I boot up it works fine.

 Is this a bug in Ubuntu 9? I have been doing that for years in Fedora 8

 Paul Lamar

 A file system issue? USB sticks are normally formated with FAT, but
 EXT is
 native to Linux.

 Mark Wrathall

 True but it works fine on Fedora 8
 Did you get to Aero?


 Paul Lamar

Hi Paul;
There were a bunch of usb automount issues with Kubuntu 9.04 that were
not present in previous versions.
I upgraded one box briefly a long time ago.
A quick search on the Kubuntu forums for "usb automount" will likely
solve your problem.
It is probably "udev rule" or (the new KDE 4) interface related.

You can also try to manually "safely remove/re-open" the usb stick from
a file manager or mount/unmount from a terminal command line.

Cheers
Cary

Thanks Cary.
I hate sudo! Sometimes it won't let you do something and it won't
tell you why not. I like to be root all the time and then I can do what
ever I want to do. sudo is the worst kind of big brother communist control
as opposed to root laissez-faire capitalism :) It is an insult to ones
intelligence.

I think that may have been my problem copying stuff to the 2nd hard drive
in 9.04. I will say there are far more applications for Unbuntu 9.04 as they
have integrated much of the Kstuff with the Gnome stuff. Fedora is not getting
the same amount of support.

Paul Lamar



I don't use sudo..  But then again, I only use root when I need to..
Paul, are you saying that your only user account is root?  Maybe I'm
just not that bright, but suspect I would stomp on myself periodically
if I was always root.

sudo (and things of that ilk) make sense where multiple users are on
the same piece of hardware (or network)..   Root access shouldn't be
given out like candy if for no other reason than security..


Matt-

How do you avoid using sudo as Ubuntu 9.04 will not let you log
in as root? Well if you own a gun you can also shoot yourself
too. Not a reason for not owning a gun :)

In eleven years I have done nothing with root that I was sorry
about later :) A lot of the critical files are hidden anyway.

Paul Lamar